949 private quotes tagged alone

“In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.” — John Barrymore

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“Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.” — Tecumseh

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“The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.” — Nora Ephron

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“As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.” — Sienna Miller

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“Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.” — Joseph Conrad

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“I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.” — Tori Amos

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“Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.” — Guru Nanak

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“I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.” — Greta Garbo

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“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.” — Frida Kahlo

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“I'm fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I'd like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don't like being alone because they truly don't like themselves, but I love me.” — Gene Simmons

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“Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.” — Mortimer Adler

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“Being alone is very difficult.” — Yoko Ono

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“You only grow when you are alone.” — Paul Newman

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“By all means use some time to be alone.” — Edward Young

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“I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.” — Elizabeth I

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“Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.” — Thomas Browne

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“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” — Maxwell Maltz

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“A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.” — Boethius

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“Remember we're all in this alone.” — Lily Tomlin

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“Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.” — Martha Beck

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“Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.” — Arnold Rothstein

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“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.” — Pearl S. Buck

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“Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.” — Paul Tournier

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“All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.” — Jean de la Bruyere

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“Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.” — Roy Orbison

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